***Official*** West Indies in New Zealand 2013/14

[BeeGee]

McCullum looks awful. Can't time the ball at all.

EDIT: and he's out. For the captain to get out to a shot like that is disgraceful.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

wtf was that shot

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrr! #captainsknock

 

[straw man]

Or could do that

 

[Flem274*]

I know a batsman Ryder could replace.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

It's not even ****ing turning. What was that

 

[Hurricane]

O Captain my Captain

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

I know a batsman Ryder could replace.

So does everyone except for the ones that matter.

 

[Zinzan]

Haha, Sammy is a freak in the field and how nonchalant is Narine when he gets a wicket. No excitement whatsoever.

Here comes the slide I was worried about. Will be very surprised if the Windies don't get a minimum 100 run lead.

Interesting that this pitch clearly suits the Windies so much better than NZ and to make matters worse we decided we wanted to bat last on it.

 

[BeeGee]

Earned the right to be dropped.

 

[GGG]

Par score for McCullum, surely no one is surprised?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

oh no. Narine to a lefty

 

[hendrix]

Fellas!!..no doubt Taylor has played very well of late but lets get a little perspective aye? Bangledash away is as easy as it gets in test cricket these days even though they've certainly improved over the last 12 months or so...and against us he's been up against the WORST WI attack i've ever seen in my life...you can't have Tino Best and Darren Samm opening your bowling and say that's a test class attack...it just isn't.

Taylor didn't even score runs against Bangladesh though. He's scored his centuries away vs India and Sri Lanka and while he didn't get centuries in England he was our best batsman of the series.

Honestly the turn in this track is being hideously overstated. It's not a glasstop but it's still not doing much apart from out of the footmarks.

It's not the amount of turn, it's the speed of the turn.

 

[Flem274*]

Interesting that this pitch clearly suits the Windies so much better than NZ and to make matters worse we decided we wanted to bat last on it.

Yeah if they can't beat us on this they can't beat us on anything. They're playing well enough to beat us though so they're on track.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Earned the right to be dropped.

Earned the right to **** off!

 

[Zinzan]

Par score for McCullum, surely no one is surprised?

Not at all. This is exactly what I expecting today. I would keep Narine bowling the whole session and he's a chance of rolling us before lunch.

 

[Flem274*]

Hey guys if the bloke in now was still skipper we could play our best team against India.

 

[BeeGee]

It wasn't even a good ball, just an atrocious shot.

 

[hendrix]

jeez it looks ridiculously easy for Taylor sometimes.

 

[Zinzan]

Earned the right to be dropped.

Nah, in the same way McCullum's double hundred against India bought him 3 years without getting dropped as a test batsman, the fact that we won the last test will likely buy him another 3 years as skipper. There'll be no accountability for his decision making.